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Googles first trillion (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 days ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i regret getting suckered in by this slogan SO MUCH rn.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think they really believed in it for the first few years

[–] jve@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, idk for sure about leadership, but a lot of googlers really did.

There’s a bunch of stories about employees pushing back and trying to organize. Some successful. But that old guard has been moving on or being pushed out for a long time now.

https://fortune.com/longform/inside-googles-civil-war/

No paywall: https://archive.ph/lkkXU

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

That's because the people did and accidentally bumping up against the leadership makes me I doubt that they ever gave AF